Re: redisplay-dont-pause is not mentioned in the Emacs manual

[Kim F. Storm]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     The idea is:
>
>     (A) Don't _start_ redisplay if there is pending input,
>       i.e. process all available input before starting redisplay.
>
>     (B) Don't _interrupt_ redisplay once it has started.
>
> That is interesting.  I never thought about the question that way.
>
> When redisplay is as fast as it usually is nowadays, perhaps
> pre-emption after redisplay starts is entirely unnecessary.  We could
> set up a speed value above which pre-emption never occurs, and we
> could arrange to specify that speed for various kinds of terminals
> that are normally very fast.

I suppose that you are taking about having some value which is
compared to `baud-rate' (which btw is 19200 with X -- ??).


>
>
>     And (B) is what you get by setting `redisplay-dont-pause'.
>
> It WAS, but not any more.  

It still IS, since redisplay-dont-pause _also_ controls whether input
interrupts redisplay.

See how redisplay_dont_pause is used in dispnew.c.


>                            We just recently changed sit-for so it will
> start a redisplay even when there is input, if `redisplay-dont-pause'
> is t.

That's what I've been arguing about changing ... so that we de-couple
whether input should interrupt redisplay and whether sit-for should
start redisplay even if there is input pending (although it does make
sense to also complete redisplay in that case).

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Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk